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[Python-Dev] Re: product()

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Thu Oct 23 00:29:13 EDT 2003 
> My guess is that, after sum, the functions used in reduce get a lot more 
> diverse, and that trying to replace all of them with builtins is not 
> feasible.

That matches my intuition.

I figure even if we just started deprecating reduce() without offering
a replacement there wouldn't be many complaints.  reduce() just
doesn't get enough mileage.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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